Scarf-pin guard.



No. 730,056. mTENTI-m JAN. 1v, 1905. C. NoBs, JR.

SCAR? PIN GUARD.

PPLIOATIOMIILBD MAR. 2, 1904 @Mw/M,

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No. l780,056. Patented January iv, 1905.

llNiTnD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES NOBS, JR., OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES NOBS & SON, A CORPORATION OF NEWT JERSEY.

SCAFiF-PlN GUARD..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 78,056, dated January 17, 1905. Application filed Mmll 2, 1904:. Serial No, 196,165.

To (if/ZZ whom it nto/y conc/17171,: L top View of Fig- 1 Fig; 3 Shows my guard Be it known that I, CHARLES Nous, Jr., a applied toa scarf-pin. Fig. it shows the same citizen ofthe United States of America, anda guard applied to a brooch.

resident of Newark, Essex county, New Jer- Similar characters of reference indicate cor- 50 sey, have invented certain new and useful Imresponding' parts in the ditlerent views,

provements in Scarf-Pin Guards, of which the l denotes two members formed into the jaws following is a specification. 2 at one end and terminating in the iiianipu- My invention relates to scarf-pin guards or lating-lingers 3 at the other end. Each of the the like; and its object is the production oi a said members i is Yformed with two inside in- 55 io simple, inexpensive, and efficient structure dentations Il and 5, respectively, for the pivot Vcapalole of being easily applied. and the scaripin 7 and with one outside The general object of devices of this kind indentation '10, located intermediate the two is to prevent scarf-pins or brooches from pullinside indentations and extending to a depth ing out of the scarie or dress, and, further, to substantially in the same plane as the center i 5 maintaina scarf-pin in the position to which it ol the pivot G, the `free ends ol the spring S, has been adjusted when inserted into the tie. formed in the shape ot a ring, bearing in the Hereto'fore it has been customary in the art said outside indentations of the members i to to use a sleeve adapted to embrace the pin, keep the jaws normally closed. The spring havinga set-screw for securing the said sleeve 8 has an aperture 9, through which the ina- 65 2o in 'position on the pin. Vitli this construcnipulating-lingers 3 extend. Normally the tion it is necessary to pass the pin through force of the spring keeps the jaws closed, the material, then to slip the cylinder on the while a pressure on the manipulating-lingers pin, then to reinsert the point of the pin into opens the device. The pivot (5 is in the presthe material and adjust it in position, and then ent instance laid loosely in between the two 70 to tighten up the set-screw. Other devices members l and is kept in position by the lathave been used entailingl a great deal of adter and the spring. justment and labor in securing them in posi- What I claim is tion. 1. As a new article of manufacture, a scarf- My invention contemplates a device which pin guard, or the like, composed of two mem- 75 can be applied to the scarf-pin after the latbers formed at one end into jaws and at the ter has been completely inserted in the scarf other end into manipulating-lingers, a pivot and fixed in position. To this end I employ interposed between the said two members, the two jaws terminating in manipulating-iingers said members having' two inside indentations, mounted on a pivot and a spring bent into one for the pivot and the other for the scarf- 8O 3 5 the form of a ring, the free ends of which pin, and one outside indentation located inbear on the jaws. The spring is further protermediate the two inside indentations, and exvided with an aperture through which the tending to a depth substantially in the same manipulating-fingers pass. plane as the center oi' the pivot, and a spring The reason for using the character of spring formed in the shape ot' a ring whose lree ends 85 40 indicated above is that avery strong pressure bear in the outside indentations of the memis necessary to keep the jaws closed around bers to keep the jaws normally closed. the scarf-pin, so as to prevent it from slip- 2. As a new article ol manufacture, ascarfping out. The leverage of this spring is eX- pin guard, oi' the like, composed of two memtremely powerful. bers formed at one end into jaws and at the 90 In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of other end into manipiiilating-lingers, a pvot a device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is interposed between the said two members, the

having an aperture through which the manipu- I O latmg-fmgers extend;

said members having two inside ndentations, one for the pivot and the other for the Scarfpin, and one outside indentation located inter- Signed at Newark, New Jersey, this 29th mediate the two inside indentations, and eX- day of February, 1904.

l l tending to a depth substantially 1n the same r CHARLES NOBSs JR plane as the center of the pivot, and a spring formed in the shape of a ring whose free ends bear in the outside indentations of the members to keep the jaws normally closed, and

Witnesses:

ANNIE VISSEMANN, AXEL V. BEEKEN. 

